This Blog is dedicated to Brent Goose - the smallest and northernmost breeding goose in the World, and the one that also undertakes some of the longest non-stop journeys of any goose species in the World. It was launched with our Brenttags project in May 2011 - funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management. Blog revived with the successful addition of 9 satellite tagged birds in May 2012. All pictures can be seen in a higher resolution by clicking on them.

16 May 2012

16 May: First week with Arner

The first weeks data from the satellite transmitter of
the gander Arner show that this particular bird utilises a slightly larger part
of Nibe Bredning than the others reported on so far, including some saltmarshes
on the north coast of the inlet.

Arner is
named afterArner Ludvig Valdemar Manniche(1867-1957), teacher, ornithologist, zoologist and
hunter, who participated in the so-called Danmark-expedition 1906-08. The primary purpose of the expedition was to map
the still unknown coastline of Northeast Greenland between 77oN and 83oN, but
also to initiate investigations of the meteorology, geology and nature of the
region. Manniche contributed with his account of”The terrestrial mammals and
birds of North-East Greenland” that
was published in 1910(Meddelelser
om Grønland, Volume 45), where he describes the first observations
light-bellied brent geese from Northeast Greenland, the Worlds northernmost
breeding population of geese.

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We (Preben Clausen, Tony Fox, Kevin Clausen, Marie Silberling Vissing) are a group of happy goose researchers from Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University who will be sharing the results of the Brentttags project with you